The Golems of Laramie County Author:Ken Rand, Ken Rand Golems in the Old West? Home is a place called Peaceful Valley, Wyoming? and love is a place called home. ?And Horace Bixby is a long way from home ? or at the very least he?s a long time from home. According to Horace, Golems and magic were just realities in Peaceful Valley in the 1800?s until the day everything went all wrong.